Economic reports archive.
NZ building work put in place, December quarter 2017
Construction activity picked up in the December quarter, rising by 1.4%. That...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Another week and another twitter tirade from US President Donald Trump...
Businesses and households split
The start of 2018 has seen divergent conditions across the New Zealand...
Rewriting history
Our latest quarterly Economic Overview comes against a somewhat different...
Q4 2017 Retail spending review
Retail sales rose strongly in the final quarter of 2017. We expect spending growth...
Fortnightly Agri Update
Prices for New Zealand’s key agricultural commodity exports remain reasonably...
Economic Overview: Rewriting history
There is a saying that it is tougher to forecast the economy than the weather...
A difference of opinion
Financial markets are always eager to pick turning points in the economic cycle...
A short note on our GDP and OCR forecasts compared to the Reserve Bank's
Following a news article today, we thought we should clarify our thoughts on our GDP...
Stay on target
As widely expected, the Reserve Bank left the OCR unchanged and repeated its...
Review of the Feb 2018 Monetary Policy Statement
As expected, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged and repeated its neutral...
NZ labour market review, Q4 2017 – All work, no pay
New Zealand’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest since 2008. But wage growth...